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When New York Times reporters James Risen and Jeff Gerth broke it on March 6, 1999, the story of Wen Ho Lee carried the plot line of a first-rate cold war thriller. In case the gravity of the security breach was lost on readers, the Times evoked the memory of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of--and executed for--leaking nuclear secrets from the same lab to the Soviet Union. The paper quoted a former CIA official as saying the case was "going to be just as bad as the Rosenbergs...
...YORK: The papers of record didn't go home empty-handed at this year's Pulitzer prizes: The New York Times took home a pair, one for columnist Maureen Dowd's cranky Clinton-Lewinsky columns and another for Jeff Gerth's chronicling of the China satellite flap. The Wall Street Journal netted two as well, one for International Reporting (the Russian financial meltdown) and one for Feature Writing. And the Washington Post took home the Public Service award for "Deadly Force," about reckless gunplay by D.C. police officers. For photography, it was an historic but not-too-surprising sweep...
What got the New York Times into a lather over these visits was Bruce Lindsey's characterization of them as social calls. According to a Times story by Jeff Gerth and Stephen Labaton, Lindsey withheld information about the Riady meetings despite the recommendations of White House lawyers Jane Sherburne and Mark Fabiani. A Times editorial then called on Lindsey to resign. But while Sherburne was quoted in Gerth and Labaton's story, Fabiani has never confirmed the account. Sources close to Sherburne say that she never felt she had been overruled or lied to by Lindsey and that the Times...
...EARLY 1992, AS CLINTON ENDURED A BRUISING PRIMARY campaign for the White House, Whitewater came back to haunt Bill and Hillary. Jeff Gerth of the New York Times began poking around Arkansas, interviewing McDougal and others about Madison and Whitewater. Hillary called her good friend New York lawyer Susan Thomases. She told Thomases that a reporter had stumbled onto a "stupid" investment she and Bill had made, and that the whole deal made her furious, especially at her husband. He'd got them into it, she said; McDougal was his friend. "I don't want everyone digging into our personal...
Susan herself had been enthusiastically supporting Clinton, dropping his name now that he was the Democratic front runner. One evening, before Gerth's New York Times story about the investment appeared in early March, the phone rang, and it was Hillary. Susan could hardly believe it--in all their dealings, it was the first time she could remember Hillary calling her rather than her husband. Susan was excited; she put behind her the ill will that had developed between them. "I'm so proud of you!" Susan exclaimed. "You're running for President. You've made all of Arkansas proud...